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Same Waves, Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl Live Show Review: 2/5, Evanston SPACE

Same Waves (from left to right: Lindsay Anderson, Jim Gifford, Gros Pokossi, Wes Reno)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Given that you can find almost anything online these days, it's refreshing to go to a show where you have no idea what sounds will emanate from the stage. Such is often the case with improvisational jazz or experimental music, but rarely with singer-songwriter material. Wednesday night at SPACE, both Same Waves (the project of L'Altra vocalist and keyboardist Lindsay Anderson) and longtime collaborators Whitney Johnson and Lia Kohl presented unreleased pieces, and in the case of Same Waves, a formally unannounced collection. How each act chose to go about with their showcase was different yet equally rewarding.

The last we heard of Same Waves was 2020's Designations: Dunes, a release billed to Same Waves + Hibernis. (Both were at one point described as Anderson's project with Hefty Records founder and soundscape artist John Hughes; I'm not sure whether Hughes is involved anymore with Same Waves.) So when Anderson entered with a totally different band--guitarist Wes Reno, fretless bassist Gros Pokossi, and drummer Jim Gifford--and placed a selection of books at the forefront, I knew we were in for something new. As it turns out, those books, which included works by British surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington, as well as by Lewis Carroll--contextualize the latest from Same Waves, a three-part love story rock opera.

Anderson

Before the band played a note, Anderson took the time to tell the story of the work and why she wrote it. The plot itself is simple enough: an "old, disillusioned" Alice goes back to Wonderland, falls in love with a Prince Charming-type character who turns into a wolf, and Alice escapes. The inspiration behind the story gave it extra weight. Anderson admitted to the crowd last night that she's "never not written a love song," something she used to think of as a shortcoming but now embraces. After all, isn't the phenomenon of love and why we seek it out the greatest existential question? Anderson was inspired by Carrington's life, starting with Carrington first witnessing the paintings of German surrealist Max Ernst and declaring that she was in love with him, having never even met Ernst. Of course, Carrington eventually did meet Ernst in London, Ernst separated from his wife, and Carrington and Ernst began a love affair and artistic collaboration. After Ernst was arrested twice--first by the French for being an illegal alien, then by the Gestapo for his degenerate art--he fled to the United States with the help of Peggy Guggenheim, who he would marry and remain married to for a few years. A heartbroken, devastated, and anxious Carrington was admitted into an asylum and treated with shock therapy and barbiturates. She was released from the asylum to be sent to a sanitorium in South Africa and managed to escape while on her journey, in Portugal. With the help of Mexican poet and journalist Renato Leduc and a convenience marriage to him, Carrington ended up in Mexico, where she would have a hugely fruitful and influential career up until her death in 2011, at the age of 94.

It's easy to see why anyone with a penchant for storytelling would be inspired by Carrington's life. Anderson, specifically, though, crafted a tale around universal artistic themes: the power and seduction of love, finding and exploring a muse, taking stock of and cultivating your own agency. The songs themselves were certainly fervent, and their instrumental arrangements appropriately expansive and epic. Reno's licks were the emotive heartbeat, bluesy and distorted. Pokossi's bass was the wiry, slinky backbone, keeping it all together. Gifford's drums crashed to dramatic flair. Of course, theater was sometimes the point; when performing "The Wolf", Anderson donned a fur vest. At the center were her vocals, themselves an instrument, traveling alongside the band whether she was cooing or wailing. During a solo encore, on the piano, Anderson performed a faithful cover of the Tori Amos classic "Winter". It was a fitting choice: Amos's narrator, like Carrington, like Anderson's Alice, mourns the betrayal of love and an absence of imagination. Finding them again within yourself is something worth celebrating.

Lia Kohl & Whitney Johnson

Johnson and Kohl, meanwhile, announced their first album together on the very morning of the show. Their live collaboration started in 2018 and has blossomed into the upcoming For Translucence (Drag City), improvised compositions for Johnson's viola, Kohl's cello, synthesizer, field recordings, and radio and sine waves. If the first single, an excerpt of "73|74", and what I heard last night (purportedly part the composition, part further improvisation) was any indication, their creative partnership continues to combine Johnson's explorations of the relationship between sound, mind, and body with Kohl's examinations of found sound, perception, and memory. The two started out on synth--Johnson, the APR Odyssey, Kohl, the Teenage Engineering OP-1--before picking up their strings. The echo created by Kohl dropping her bow on her strings, letting the bounce reverberate, contrasted Johnson's deliberate strokes, and they carried on sometimes in tandem, sometimes in conflict. Considering that each song on For Translucence consists of two improvisations superimposed over one another, and is named after the respective octaves to which the instruments are tuned, it's appropriate that the mixture occupies a space between shared language and chance. The result, on Wednesday, was rich with layers.

[trevlad-sounds]

Another Mix You Missed.

March Mix A. Pt. 2. The Instrumental Electronic Set.

Radicalfashion-Shousetsu 00:00

Evil Needle-Sunday Morning 03:00

B. Bravo-Computa Love 06:48

Silowette-fresh.air 10:32

Flamingosis-Airplane Mode 12:29

Galvanix-Thirteen 14:52

NeguimBeats-An Opportunity Feat. Victor B 18:17

Mr. Moods-Love is a Strange Thing 21:35

Nujabes Island (featuring Uyama Hiroto & haruka nakamura) 26:21

The Gaslamp Killer-Residual Tingles 31:33

Plaid-Masato Shuffle 33:03

Ratatat-Flynn 37:36

Take-Horizontal Figuration (Tokimonsta Remix) 39:17

Melchior Sultana-Early Bird 42:50

Cid Rim-A Fall For Two 47:16

Floating Points-Wires 50:39

Mr. Figz-Staring Back ( Evil Needle Remix ) 1:01:21

Helldogs Kris-Cycles 1:02:37

Quantic-Meaning 1:05:42

Missingsense-Numb Lock 1:07:56

Kodomo-Concept 11 1:11:10

Big Wild-Full Moon 1:16:28

Tornado Wallace-Lonely Planet 1:18:51

Motionfield-Luftrum 4 1:21:52

Hidden Orchestra-Flight 1:27:36

AL PATRON-Lately 1:34:56

Thriftworks-Soul of the Cricket 1:37:00

Evil Needle-Falling Leaves 1:39:37

Penthouse Penthouse-When It Rains (w/ Stwo) 1:42:21

Sweatson Klank-Still Dark (Instrumental) 1:46:44

[ifyougiveuptoday]

we need to let them loose in a shopping mall with unlimited budget NOW!!!

[angryjewishcockroach]

My dad and I went through the record collection today to organize them in some snazzy record boxes we recently got, and, amongst all the classical and opera, we found these! Clockwise, these records are: Rosh Hashanah Service by Jan Peerce (an opera singer and cantor) with the Camerata Singers; The Brothers Zim Present The Joy of Shabbos by Sol Zim and his sons | Original Chassidic Melodies for the Sabbath | Special Havdalah Service; Dvorak/Cello Concerto Bruch/Kol Nidre by Janos Starker (cello) and Antal Dorati (conductor); and Kol Nidre Service by Richard Tucker (another opera singer and cantor) composed and conducted by Sholom Secunda.

I'm really excited to listen to the cello version of Kol Nidre because every year at my synagogue a violinist performs it, and every year I spend the entirety of the performance thinking about how much nicer it would sound on cello.

[fairyblue-alchemist]

horror game concept: standard run of the mill horror game where monsters or whatever can hear the noises you make and are attracted to you because of it BUT your flashlight is a smartphone with 10 keychains attached to it. no you can't take them off

source: me looking for something in the dark with my phone and said phone is loud as FUCK

[oldshowbiz]

1967.

Not in a million years would you expect such a heavy, driving, hypnotic song to be on a soundtrack album that looks like this.

[dreamingofbabylon]

[vampirebiter]

my apologies to the g.utsca stan who just followed my art blog and will inevitably scroll one post down and see my g/g choking riding sex drawing. i think you will probably be sorely disappointed by the kind of artist i actually am.

[thefallenangelsgang]

I'm SOBBING

[kerosene-saint]

this is my child

[photo ID: two photos of a black glossy vintage compact cassette recorder, the first picture is of a hand holding it and the second picture is of it sitting on top of it's original packaging that says "Compact Cassette Recorder" on it as well as the brand name "Realistic" /. End ID]

[thedreadvampy]

realising how much of my expansion beyond rock and metal into a wide range of genres is because:

Slipknot crossed over with the edgy/gothier end of 2000s hiphop

Disturbed are just like. The BIGGEST nerds for 80s British pop (they're not alone in that, it's a whole numetal Thing, but I think like a solid 10% of the 80s pop I listen to I first heard as a Disturbed cover)

Lady Gaga was the top 40 artist it was Okay For Edgy Alternative Teens To Like In 2007

Being an Alternative 2000s Teen was in many ways very musically stifling cause it was incumbent upon me to perform disdain for anything deemed too Pop.

I was somewhat rescued by my own gayness (when me and my gay goblin friends discovered CAMP!!!! and got semi-ironically big into Katy Perry and Rihanna and of course Gaga) but mostly I was so aggressively self-policing my music tastes and deciding what to listen to based more on my assessment of where it fitted socially than on whether I like. Liked it.

Catch 13 year old me studiously typing "punk" and "metal" into Limewire and listening to whatever came up. Catch 15 year old me assessing whether the fact that Rihanna is making music videos about murder in black lipstick means it's ok to like top 40 pop. Complicated by the fact that honestly half the biggest Alternative Teen bait acts of the 2000s were pop as hell, and that as above, numetal acts were nerdy musicians with a broad range of tastes outside metal, and it was very complicated for me. It probably took me until I was like 20 to really start to get a handle on what I personally liked musically, rather than what fit my persona (vividly remember being in a goth club when I was like 18 where they closed out the night with Leonard Cohen's Closing Time every time, and thinking like oh man am I allowed to like Leonard Cohen then? having been listening to Leonard Cohen since I was a literal infant.)

Once I let go of the sense of having to like the Right Music, I very rapidly developed very eclectic tastes and music became a really big part of my life. although my friend did recently still describe my music taste as "two genres - heavy and gay" so that 2000s alt teen is still in there big time.

I think it's a normal thing about being a kid. You're developing music taste basically from scratch and there's a world of music out there so it helps to start out with a narrow focus and build a solid few acts, albums or genres you really like and work out from there. But I do regret how much good music I missed out on first time around because even though I liked it I wrote it off for being rap or being too pop or too upbeat. But the good thing about music is that it doesn't go away! I'm still discovering a lot of music that I heard 50000 times when it was on the radio but never really listened to at the time. It's fun!

[ratislatis]

nobody look at me while I sightread and lose my fucking mind

that video isn't actual playing btw. it is ALL outtakes. only funny times here on the rat blog

[cyandocs]

The Universe seems to be reluctant to let me record The Sims again. Not only does the game crash, sometimes alongside OBS, whatever process is happening is enough to make my computer PANIC and blue screen. I've lost well over an hour worth of footage to corruption.

So. I guess that channel will stay dusty for now 🙃

[7s3ven]

FILE LOADING… tf 141 x hacker! reader

pt one

You needed a way to lighten your prison sentence and Task Force needed a hacker who actually knew what they were doing.

It was a win-win situation if it wasn’t for the fact that you always work alone. Teamwork? That was an unheard concept to you.

You, with a criminal record so long it could be used as a blanket. You who came from a mafia family so it’s no wonder such a sweet looking doll ended up in prison for stealing valuable files.

Task Force 141, an elite squad who had no idea how to spend their hefty pay checks. The idea of a special woman in their lives was merely a figment of their imagination until Laswell threw your files down in front of him.

You were young, barely twenty-seven. The tattoo ink decorating your body with feminine designs was a harsh contrast to your background. And when you sneered at the camera, it gave a perfect view of your tongue piercing and gems adorning your teeth.

In short, you were the perfect little thing they could spoil.

“Reaper? Why do they call her that?”

“Because it’s the last name you learn before a bullet pierces your fucking skull. Once she steals your information, there’s no getting it back. And when she shares it with your enemies, you’re a deadman walking.”

[donospl]

Sullivan Fortner „Solo Game”

Artwork Records, 2023 Pierwsze solowe nagrania pianisty i kompozytora Sullivana Fortnera są jednocześnie jego debiutem w wytwórni Artwork Records. Album „Solo Game” to prawie 80 minut muzyki na dwóch płytach. “Solo” i „Game” to tak naprawdę dwa odrębne wydawnictwa, różniące się wykorzystanymi instrumentami, zaprezentowanym programem, podejściem do wykonania. Pierwsza z płyt zawiera fotepianowy…

[konigsblog]

KÖNIG P!LINK MASTERLIST. (🌽)

MASTERLISTS - BEWARE: DARK THEMES BELOW.

MINORS DO NOT INTERACT. STRICTLY 18+. ALL MINORS WILL BE BLOCKED.

A MASTERLIST OF KÖNIG THEMED VIDEOS COMPILED TOGETHER.

CREDITS: @GLUTT_R, ALL VIDEOS ARE AVAILABLE ON X/🐦

LOSER!KÖNIG

jerking loser!könig off while he plays videogames.

promising to let könig have a little fun...

bimbo!reader giving the poor social recluse a chance.

getting loser!könig off after toying with him all day.

becoming loser!könig's outlet for frustration during gaming.

big-dicked!loser!könig melting at the touch of a woman.

letting loser!virgin!könig record during sex.

bouncing on his cock while he games.

allowing the sick pervert to hump you.

loser!könig who'll humiliate himself for your satisfaction.

NERD!KÖNIG

nerd!könig who's very clearly and visibly inexperienced, but beyond desperate.

getting nerd!könig off as compensation for his helpfulness while studying together.

nerd!reader getting könig off while reading.

nerd!könig x nerd!reader.

overstimulating nerd!könig with your gentle, intimate touch.

nerd!könig who needs some extra entertainment.

tying him up and fucking with his fucked-up, perverted head.

refusing to let könig lose his virginity to you just yet.

könig and his humiliation & exhibition kink..

finally touching nerd!könig for the first time.

CREEP!KÖNIG

könig after gifting you a teddy bear with a camera hidden inside...

könig after gifting you a teddy bear with a camera hidden inside (part two)...

creep!könig secretly recording you during sex.

creep!könig who takes advantage of intoxicated women he finds. (non-con)

kidnapper!könig who abducts young, dumb, and unsuspecting women. (non-con)

creep!könig who manipulates you into consenting. (non-con)

silencing you with threats... and his thick cock.

assaulted in the boot of his truck. (non-con)

public transport with creepy, touchy könig.

PERV!KÖNIG

somnophiliac!könig and his crave for lust and control. (non-con + somnophilia)

“just the tip...” with perverted, overstimulated könig.

getting handsy with high libido!könig.

those panties? he's stuffing them into his pocket for later, mäuschen.

könig's oral fixation.

könig being unable to keep his hands to himself.

könig's inability to keep his mouth off of you.

being awoken with sex by perv!könig.

KONIG (GENERAL)

being your colonel's dumb little sex toy.

könig and his raging size kink.

könig's feral breeding fetish.

the mistake of losing to your virginity to könig...

worshiping his meaty cock.

cockdrunk off his hung and hefty dick.

first time with könig.

hole inspection with könig.

könig's intensifying and worsening breeding kink.

könig and his skillful, tactical fingers.